>Le sequente message es possibilemente le origine del rumor que
le
>anglese ha essite selectionate per le Commission de Europa pro
servir
>como le lingua official del Union Europee:
>
>LIPTON: Common European Language 28
Apr 1998 08:51
>The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement
has been
> reached to adopt English as the preferred language for
European
>communications, rather than German, which was the other
possibility.
>
>As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded
that
> English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a
>five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish
(Euro for
>short).
>
> In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
Sertainly,
> sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the
hard "c" will
> be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion,
but
> typewriters kan have one less letter.
>
> There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year,
when the
> troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make
words like
> "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
>
> In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan
> be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes
are
> possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double
letters,
> which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al
wil agre
> that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is
disgrasful, and
> they would go.
>
> By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing
> "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".
>
> During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords
kontaining
> "ou", similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of
> leters.
>
> After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer
vil
> be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
understand
> ech ozer.
>
> Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
>
>:-)
>